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  1. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Lovely photos as ever Phil. Can‘t wait to get back and get amongst them!
  2. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Bad luck Mike - but we go again with a clean sheet starting tomorrow! And thank you so much for running this thread and sharing memorable days out with me. Thanks also to all the others I have met while birding over the past few years in Mallorca. I have indeed become a wiser and more competent...
  3. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    I managed to get a couple of hours today at La Gola and Albufereta way up north. La Gola was quiet, but I did encounter a yellow wagtail, cattle egret and, in the canal at the inland end of the reserve, a grey heron who was completely unconcerned by my proximity as he waded through the water...
  4. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    By the way, I also spotted a pipit this morning. I was a bit unsure so checked with Merlin photoID and it suggested rock pipit, red throated pipit, water pipit... Merlin had also "heard" water pipit when I was there so I was keen on that. Sadly, I don't believe any of these suggestions, I think...
  5. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Winter is back! When I left the house at just before 8 this morning, the thermometer registered 2°C; when I started the windscreen wipers to clear the condensation from the car windscreen, it immediately turned to ice. By the time I parked in from og Font Santa hotel, the car's thermometer...
  6. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    It is available in German, Danish or French though...:rolleyes:
  7. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Hi David, We discussed a book on waders yesterday, was this the one? Thoroughly to be recommended to all - a very thorough photographic guide with images of birds at all ages and in a range of plumages. Unfortunately it seems to be out of print now, only available second hand on Amazon for...
  8. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Bright and early, MikeM picked me up from home and drove to the sports bar in Maria, where we met Geordie Dave and Mike Swiss, and also enjoyed a coffee (not to mention a generous piece of MikeM's delicious breakfast pa amb oli). We the proceeded to the surrounding fields, chauffeured in some...
  9. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Well done Mike for combining, well, pleasure with pleasure! I just wanted to add that I had a rather quiet visit to Sa Barrala this morning, because the location has been mentioned a few times on here recently. I did see plenty of marsh harrier, a red kite and couple of kestrels, one of which...
  10. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    No, no raptors came for the pies but there were two scavengers!
  11. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    What a wonderful day! MikeM was keen on Sa Barrala so Kevin and I met him outside the Hotel Font Santa early doors and decided to stroll through the Salobrar first. What a start! In the fields we encountered a bluethroat and two redwing – year tick and lifer for Mallorca for me – before we moved...
  12. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Back at last after more than six weeks of gloom, rain, gales, fog in north Germany ... Yesterday in our garden, we saw three raptors circling above, one clearly a red kite, one smaller, so probably booted eagle, one about the same size as the kite but obviously a different bird. It rose higher...
  13. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Yes, you got a lot of detail out of that, I agree entirely, see the photo I have cribbed from Europe's Birds:
  14. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Perhaps I‘ll make that one tick for a Montagu‘s and/or Pallid harrier (in pencil)?😂
  15. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Oh crikey, that's another lifer then!:DWhat a morning!
  16. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    I enjoyed it too, I could gain a sense of the excitement of migration with birds weighing up whether to go south or not, with streams of swallows going anyway, and I was pleased to bag three year ticks with the Montagu's harrier, the frustrated Eleonora's falcon and the honey buzzard. But I...
  17. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    So that's over eighty bee eaters and rising, Mike!
  18. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    I had an hour or so at the Salobrar this evening and besides a group of five juvenile ruff, I also came across an oddity – I imagine it must be a case of albinism? As you can see, it was among a group of various small plovers, maybe a white little ringed plover?
  19. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Anne had a meeting with a fellow artist in Pollença today so I took the opportunity to explore the north of the island a bit more. First I tried La Gola, where I had never been before. A whole new dimension to the word quiet. But at Albufereta the rewards were greater – I went along the Sa...
  20. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Thank you again!
  21. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Hi Ian, Thank you for your kind words. It is very easy to find Passage No. 5. You simply take the Ma-6110 from Ses Salines to the Cap de ses Salines. After a while, you will see signposts on the right, Passatge No. 1, Passatge No. 2 etc. After you pass the sign for Passatge No. 5, you can pull...
  22. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Having trouble uploading the pictures of the dragonflies, I'll try again later.
  23. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    I‘d arranged to meet Mike and Jane at the Cape this morning, (not so early, yay!) but on the way stopped at Passage No. 5 Mike. What an inspired decision that was! I first spotted a few corn bunting and had a quick sighting of a wheatear (first of the year) and soon made out a small group of...
  24. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Thanks for the answer Maties. It is these moments that keep us coming back to birding, isn't it! If you found what you were looking for all the time, it wouldn't be interesting!
  25. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Morning Mike, finally back at the Salobrar early yesterday and throughly enjoyed it although it was still muddy! I missed out on the Pectoral sandpipers, black-tailed godwit and the dotterel of course although I was eying up a group of waders in the first pond on the left (could have been...
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